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thanks for the advice. ive put him up on the hedge walked back down to the house and have watched him fly off. hopefully he survives.   a bit of warmth and a dry has done the trick

young swallows were being fed steady for days

Im no expert but id say that youngster has a better chance if you stick him up high somewhere its parents might find him rather than take him indoors where they wont.

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Trigger you did your best matey, it's a shame people like to give advice without any knowledge of the subject in hand. Let's hope he makes it to Africa...

I was handed a house martin just the same as your's a couple of years ago. He was superb, had him in the house a few days, getting his flight muscles going, building him up, having lots of flights around the front room. Quite an amazing experience it was. For me anyway. The next sunny day that came along he was taken back to the site where he'd been picked up and away he went.....It felt good, and even though I know that it was 'against natural selection' to help a creature that was , perhaps, meant to die, I have no regrets. :victory:

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Hi, the parents will NOT feed that chick. It has fledged some time ago. The bird is a house martin and I've reared one before. In this weather there's every chance he will now die....they cannot cope with wet weather well, especially as young birds.

I'm sure he appreciated being warm and dry..... :thumbs:

what did you feed it on darcy?

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I always have a large stock of 1, 2 and 5 ml syringes in, as i do get handed quite a few fledglings over the course of a spring/summer. One little tip, is that the crop of a bird is slightly on its right hand side, that helps with fast feeding.

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These are a pair of treecreepers i had to do a couple of months back when some kids had pulled their nest out. I think they were pulling dead bark off tree's and this was the outcome.... :huh:

fairplay. ive raised young wood pigeons when i was a kid.

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Where there's life there's hope and never under estimate a wild animals desire to stay alive.

The bird I'd say was down low due to being water logged and it sounds like he was only in long enough to dry out so fingers crossed on a good hatch of flying insects and he might get his strength back up.

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Trigger you did your best matey, it's a shame people like to give advice without any knowledge of the subject in hand.

 

If people only gave advice on subjects they have knowledge on half the topics on here would never get off the ground !!.............Long as you make the person aware your not an expert i cant see the problem.

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Trigger you did your best matey, it's a shame people like to give advice without any knowledge of the subject in hand. Let's hope he makes it to Africa...

I was handed a house martin just the same as your's a couple of years ago. He was superb, had him in the house a few days, getting his flight muscles going, building him up, having lots of flights around the front room. Quite an amazing experience it was. For me anyway. The next sunny day that came along he was taken back to the site where he'd been picked up and away he went.....It felt good, and even though I know that it was 'against natural selection' to help a creature that was , perhaps, meant to die, I have no regrets. :victory:

So you've never watched a house Martin or swallow feeding young anywhere apart from the nest?? Lol
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I'm not saying that. Please don't put words in my mouth. I do know what I'm talking about matey, otherwise I would not be giving advice that could effect a life. I was speaking from experience. That's all.

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